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Many women living with HIV can have safe, healthy and satisfying sexual and reproductive lives, but there is still a long way to go to make this a universal reality. The new issue of the Journal of the International AIDS Society features contributions from researchers, clinicians, policymakers and women living with HIV that examine this critical issue – including new research from the UCSF Bixby Center.

Yes, there is such a thing as “incitement.”

We may have evolved past thinking of women as a monolith, but we still haven’t connected the dots that “women’s issues” are “everyone issues”—especially when it comes to linking reproductive rights and economic security.

On Thursday night, a Shonda Rhimes show once again created waves for a storyline about abortion.

‘Scandal’ producer Shonda Rhimes should be lauded for her accurate portrayal of a black woman seeking abortion.

Planned Parenthood sued Texas officials in federal court in Austin on Monday, seeking to block the state from cutting off its Medicaid funding, the latest in a series of lawsuits it has filed against Republican-led states after the controversy over its use of fetal tissue.

Groundbreaking laws in two Western states will soon make access to birth control easier for millions of women by allowing them to obtain contraceptives from pharmacists without a doctor’s prescription.

New laws in California and Oregon will soon allow pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraceptives—including the patch, the ring, and the pill—enabling women to access more effective forms of birth control without a trip to the doctor’s office.

More than 100,000 Texas women have attempted to self-induce an abortion, and Latinas living near the border are more likely to be in that group, a report released Tuesday from the University of Texas found.